Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russia's angry warning shots indicate that the Carter Administration has pressed a vulnerable nerve. Says one analyst: "The Soviets are extremely irritated. They're puzzled, worried and scratching around for ways to fight back." The bizarre charges of espionage in Izvestia could, in fact, trigger a fresh round of recriminations. Accused Diplomat Presel is now on medical leave in West Germany, and some U.S. officials assume that he will not be allowed back in. If so, the U.S. will surely reply by sending a Soviet diplomat of similar rank packing home to Moscow...
...addition, according to a University pamphlet; they are intended "to bring new ideas and fresh viewpoints to the University, to prevent provincialism, inbreeding and self-satisfaction and to serve as a liaison with the disciplines as represented outside Harvard...
...skepticism can be seen, as well as heard, in the emergence of a fresh willingness to challenge the custodians of arcane technical knowledge on their own ground. It is most conspicuously embodied in the environmental crusade and the consumers' rebellion, but is also at play across a far wider field. It applies public light and political heat to Detroit's automotive engineers, who for generations had dispatched their products to an acquiescent public. It encompasses protests against the location of dams massively certified by science, opposition to the erection of nuclear power plants declared to be safe...
Perhaps the most intriguing scheme came from an imaginative scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. After an earlier drought in the 1950s, John Isaacs proposed towing giant, flat-topped icebergs from Antarctica (those from the Arctic would not be big enough) to the California coast; as they melted, fresh water could be siphoned out of the lakes that would form on top of them. The idea has impressed at least one country: petroleum-rich, water-poor Saudi Arabia. A French engineering firm hired by the Saudis is studying whether or not the plan is practical. Towed by six tugs...
...earthiness of his hell. There are no fork-wielding demons and no brimstone. It is only in the town dump that "the fire is not quenched and the worm dieth not." Though Hales draws many of his characters from Dante's subterranean aristocracy, he sketches them with fresh wit. Cleopatra, for instance, has something of an American accent because she has been "surrounded, for the last hundred years at least, more by Americans than British...